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Secret Hobbies

LONDON's favourite forward-thinking designer JW Anderson is a little bit obsessed with gardening while Christian Louboutin is a secret trapeze artist. He has two trapezes in his studio - installed after his favoured trapeze club closed down - which he practices on between meetings. So, inspired by what is quite possibly the most stylish vision our minds can conjure, we asked fashion's key players to reveal their secret, even strange, hobbies.

Which Vogue cover girl loves chopping wood? Which international supermodel is an expert carpet-layer? Which photographer loves capturing pictures of rubbish? Which designer is a fire dancer, and which a budding pianist? Which former Vogue editor is a secret ballet dancer? Find out here.

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JW Anderson, designer

"I’ve become obsessed with gardening recently. There’s just something about it – not that I have a garden but I love things like Kew Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show – so it’s kind of a hobby but not really."

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Carine Roitfeld, fashion editor

"I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is. It's similar to my interest in fashion, except with fashion there are clothes. I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position. I did a lot of yoga, but now I've stopped yoga and I'm just doing ballet, maybe because I love the music of ballet, the piano. I love piano music, it reminds me of being in the Russian school of ballet, and I love that," she told HINTMAG.COM. "I love listening to the piano while I am doing my ballet. If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina."

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Kate Moss, model

"I can do a good roast with my eyes closed," she told Stylist. I’m amazing with gravy. That’s my speciality, even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I’m very proud of my gravy."

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Christian Louboutin, shoe designer

"There is this extraordinary scene in slow motion in the film Wings of Desire where the angel falls in love. "It inspired me to take trapeze classes for the next seven years."

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Sienna Miller, actress

"I love to chop wood. I find it really therapeutic. Savannah’s husband bought me an axe for Christmas and I’m getting quite good at it."

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Lily Donaldson, model

"Dancing. I like to dance - contemporary dance, really freestyle."

Diane von Furstenberg, designer

"I’m a big hiker and I keep a visual diary. I always have my camera on me and I’m always taking photos."

Tamara Mellon, fashion entrepreneur

"I make a mean roast chicken, there is nothing better than a traditional British Sunday roast with all the trimmings surrounded by friends and family."

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Freja Beha Erichsen, model

"I do write [poetry] now, but I'd like to actually be really good at it, you know? It takes years of practice, I think, in order to get really good at something," she told New York Magazine.

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Hannah Holman, model

"Whenever I go back to Utah, I go hunting with my father. I am a sharp shooter and shot my first mountain lion when I was 13."

Daria Werbowy, model

"Sailing is the closest I can get to nature — it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown," she told T Magazine. "And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks."

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Natalia Vodianova, model

"I am an excellent embroiderer - and I’m great at laying carpets. Honestly."

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Rankin, photographer

"I’m living my dream hobby but if I had to pick - and this is quite embarrassing – I like taking pictures of rubbish. I see faces in patterns but they never come out the way I want them to – they look like, well, rubbish. And I quite like the name for an exhibition – Rankin’s Rubbish – it’s a good name I think.”

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Roland Mouret, designer

"I like to serve proper cream tea with frozen jam at 4pm every weekend."

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Savannah Miller, designer

"I’m trained as a holistic doula. You might not know what that is, unless you’ve had a baby, but I’m basically trained to help a woman during and after birth. I actually just supported a friend of my while she had her baby. It was wonderful."

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Tallulah Harlech, actress

"I’m a huge fan of gyrotonics [an exercise technique] and do it every day. I am such an enthusiast that I recently qualified as a gyrotonics instructor!"

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Bruce Oldfield, designer

"Starting to play the piano at 58… good for the brain, the fingers, and general coordination - beats Sudoko!!”

Daisy de Villeneuve

"I collect colourful stamps as a hobby. I’ve been collecting them for years and my most treasured items are two stamps from the US featuring Greta Garbo and Gary Cooper."

Leomie Anderson, model

"I have an unusual hobby - or bad habit - of taking photographs of people’s shoes, only when they are amazing though, and collating them into a scrap book."

Natalia Barbieri, shoe designer

"Ok - so very random...but I actually dabble in DJing - predominately RnB, old school, new jack swing and hip hop. I sometimes play the warm up set at my brother’s nightclub – Aura Mayfair - in the West End."

Patricia Schmid, model

"I crochet. I got into it a few years ago, backstage at the shows, and since then crochet everything from scarves to oven gloves!"

Daniela and Annette Felder, designers

"Annette used to be a fire dancer, where she had fire on the end of two long chains and swung them around herself while dancing. Incredibly dangerous, but beautiful to look at."

J JS Lee, designer

"In Korea I do snowboarding. I have been doing it for ten years - I'm super good and can do a double jump. In London it is hard to do snowboarding so I change my hobby to jogging - it's great people watching and getting fresh air."

Ada Zanditon, designer

“I really love cooking! I find it’s the most relaxing thing to do after a long day. It's another form of creativity! I particularly love making risotto with wild mushrooms. I do worry about how incredibly old-fashioned it is to spend all my time either sewing, designing dresses or cooking - particularly as my mother very much brought me up to be a feminist! But I absolutely love it - I always use lots of fresh organic ingredients and tonnes of olive oil.”